Eliel Edmund Irving Body

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Mary-Ann Cook who writes:
Eliel Edmund Irving Body, always known as `Ted`, was educated from 1894 at The King`s School, Parramatta, and in 1901-02 studied arts at the University of Sydney. He returned home without a degree and enthusiastically helped to manage Bundemar. In 1914 the family bought Ardgour, Quirindi, and in 1924 a section of Buttabone, Warren, which were run as part of the stud. The sheep were classed by Charles Mallinson until he received a merino sheep appointment from the South African government in 1919. That year Body became a co-trustee of his father`s estate and for many years thereafter was the guiding hand, first as studmaster, then as manager. The first famous sheep bred by Body was Sir Charles, whose progeny were sold throughout Australia and exported to South Africa and South America. Bundemar won many championships at the Sydney Sheep Show and the group prize (later the Stonehaven Cup) more often than any other stud.
He was a keen footballer, cricketer, tennis-player, golfer and race-goer, and was a member of the Australian Club, the Australian Jockey Club and Royal Sydney Golf Club; he spent his last years in Sydney. In 1960 he was appointed C.B.E. for his services to the sheep industry. On 8 June 1965 he died at his flat at Edgecliff and was cremated with Anglican rites; he was survived by his wife Doris Elaine, née Walsh, whom he had married at St Kilda, Victoria, on 20 August 1913, and by his only son. His estate was valued for probate at £71,705. After his death the close family partnership was impossibly unwieldy, with shareholders spanning three generations: Bundemar and the other stations were ultimately sold in 1973. The phenomenal success of the stud had been due to a close-knit family effort under Ted Body`s sagacious control.

Eliel married Doris Elaine Walsh on 20 Aug 1913 in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. (Doris Elaine Walsh was born circa 1890 and died on 4 Nov 1973 in Trangie, NSW Australia.)